Interview and look ahead: Week 3 Blog 2

This week Ben and I were able to have an interview with Coach Johnson. We figured that he would be a valuable source because he recruits players and he is a college basketball fanatic. Before the interview Ben and I both prepared questions that we would ask him. Some of the questions include: How do you initially here of a player? What do look for in a player when you are scouting him? How do you try to "sell" your program to a recruit. Coach Johnson gave us some very insightful answers. In his answers he used many examples from his life time which was very helpful. I recorded the interview on my phone. After the interview was over I listened to the interview on my phone and transcribed the answers to a word document. We decided that I would write the article about Coach Johnson. In the article I put in many quotes as well as some of my own thoughts and analysis. Overall I think the interview was a great experience and Ben and I both learned new things about recruiting. Looking ahead, Ben is going to interview Jesse Bopp who is the assistant basketball coach at Chattanooga University. I am going to write more about the top twenty five recruiting classes and I will create a video tomorrow. We have done a lot of work, but there is still a lot more to go.